We left at 1:45 pm on Tuesday Eastern Daylight Time and arrived at 6:15 am on Thursday local Sydney time. It's still so bizarre how you ...

Zari and I are 2 flights into our 3 flights to Sydney! We also accidentally wore matching outfits. (Excuse the squinting--it was super brigh...

Last full day of the reunion (it's a short one, sadly). We have tomorrow morning to pack and clean. More of the same fun things, plus C...

We arrived back in our (American) home last night around midnight. Since we had a few hours to spare before catching our flight home, we sto...

Some of the things we (including all of the extended family) did today: swam in the pool swam in the hot tub swam in several of the lakes (...

We completed an important part of American culture: the road trip. We drove from Lake Tahoe to the eastern part of Utah in a bit under 10 h...

Busy with family reunions here in Lake Tahoe...lots of swimming (brrrrr!), hiking, cooking, game playing. Today was Sugar Pine Point, a stat...

The place where my parents will be staying has a hot tub. They haven't arrived yet, but we have the keys and it was amazing to relax the...

We made it all the way to San Francisco on Monday (via Philadelphia) with no hiccups. We're staying at my sister's for several days...

Phew! I think we are ready to go! Just a final vacuuming tomorrow, double check passports and keys. With so much cleaning today, we took a b...

More of the same: packing and cleaning. Well, it's mostly all cleaning now. We got the toe kicks cut, sanded, painted and installed. L...

Lots more cleaning and packing...lots of errands to run (including buying and painting toe kicks for the kitchen). We still managed to fit i...

Whew, Zari has registered for fall and winter classes! (The U of T makes students register for a full year at a time--so weird.) She has to ...

I have decided that the perfect torture for Zari is to give her a list of super interesting classes and make her pick just a few of them. Y...

Apparently Dio and his friends stayed up (quietly, whispering in the dark) until 3 am! They stayed for breakfast and lunch and then swam at ...

I did another urban hike with my friend and Zari, this time to Fort Alban. Taking an evening walk brought my step count up to 20K. Not bad!...

I'm loving this more temperate weather. I had my usual walk to/from Cimiez, plus an evening walk. Zari finished her Lord of the Rings...

I got a fun glimpse into a world I'm not usually privy to. I played in a wedding this afternoon at the Chevre d'Or hotel in Eze, a f...

The 3 youngest are back home after 4 days of camping! They got home in time for a late dinner (homemade lasagna, made by our friends, and l...

When the kids are away, the adults can play...at Pont de la Cerise! It was the most perfect day, the clearest water, the best weather. I ha...